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Reverse Phone Number Look up: Privacy Nightmare or an Innocent Service?

by Robert Sinclair

Sometimes it's hard to believe how advanced we've become.

It is a popular belief that Information Technology saw the most advancements. But it's not true. It is actually the medical world which is seeing the biggest amoutn ofgrowth. New medication and cures are being found at a staggering rate. Probably the biggest discovery of all is the discovery of stem cells. This doesn't mean that Electronics sector has stalled. There is a remarkable rise of new developments in the sector. Unfortunately some of it is quite controversial. Reverse phone lookup would be a good case. Before if you wanted to get a name of a person you would need to manually look for the phone number in a telephone book. This would take a regular person several hours at the very least.

What was once a nearly impossible task can now be done in fractions of a second. Just go to any of the web-sites that offer the service (phone-lookup-spy.com/923/) type in your telephone number and almost immediately you will have the information that you were looking for.

You get a lot of information based on only one variable. Unless the person hides this information you can get his home address and more. In the case of cellular phone lookup you might get even more information. GPS and Cell Tower search might disclose the current physical location of the cell owner!

The potential uses of this reverse phone directory lookup are absolutely amazing. Prank calls and harassment calls can now be traced and reported to authorities. You can find information on the company that called you. Or maybe you just want to send your favourite uncle a Christmas present, but only have his phone number. It's sad, but evil doers can also use this service. Some maniac can find out where you live if they have your phone number. A loan shark might get the address of a poor gambling victim. I guess you see my point.

I sincerely hope that the bad guys won't spoil it for the rest of us. Just because they decide to cross the line it doesn't mean that others will follow their example. Banning reverse phone look up, would be like banning forks, just because someone can use it as a weapon.

http://www.phone-lookup-spy.com/212 a web-site where you can perform reverse telephone searches.

Published March 27th, 2009

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